My work focuses on improving how legal work is performed inside law firms drawing on my 20+ years as a Sullivan & Cromwell partner and 15 years of practice management consulting to AmLaw firms. This includes the practical adoption of AI, but more broadly involves changes to staffing, collaboration, and execution that improve both client outcomes and firm economics. My work is grounded in both extensive law firm experience and many years of consulting with leading firms. I focus on helping firms translate strategic priorities into changes in how lawyers actually work.
I am based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jack Bostelman
Jack Bostelman is our president and principal consultant. He has assisted leaders of law firms ranging from 200 to 1,000+ lawyers on a wide variety of practice management initiatives, including AI adoption in practice groups and the design and management of AI pilots. He spent several years in separate sustained engagements with two AmLaw 100 firms, working closely with firm leadership and practice groups to improve matter execution and firm economics. That work informs his current focus on AI adoption and change at the practice group level.
Before founding KM/JD Consulting LLC, Jack practiced law in New York for over 20 years as a capital markets partner of pre-eminent AmLaw 20 firm Sullivan & Cromwell.
Jack knows how law firms are managed and what motivates lawyers. During his tenure at Sullivan & Cromwell, Jack coordinated the firm's extensive capital markets practice worldwide, managed a practice group, was a member of the firm's opinion committee and its administrative committee, oversaw the IT department and was on the faculty for the lawyer training program. Jack also supervised the firm's initiatives for lawyer workflow, how lawyers access and use practice information, and supporting systems.
A nationally recognized transactional securities lawyer, Jack is past chair of the American Bar Association's securities registration committee. No stranger to complex projects, Jack also authored The Sarbanes-Oxley Deskbook (Practising Law Institute), a 3-volume legal treatise on corporate governance and securities reforms.
Jack was recognized as a New York Super Lawyer from 2006 through his final year of practice in 2010.
Jack received his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. from Columbia University.